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The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is
to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance's new vision
(the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact - associated
tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon.
The book serves as a relevant and timely study of the most pressing
issues facing NATO today - including recent lessons gained. It
provides recommendations for consideration and further discussion
(i.e., the "what" and the "how" regarding future policy options for
the North Atlantic Alliance). The intended audience includes
international security policy-makers, government officials, elected
leaders, academics, interested professionals, civil society and
members of the public. Specifically, the book focuses on six topic
areas. Part I, the Introduction, relates to conceptual and
organizational changes, membership expansion and enlargement. Part
II consists of emerging security challenges, including terrorism,
piracy, homeland threats, cyber defense and information warfare,
energy security, non-proliferation and countering WMD. Part III
incorporates national and regional challenges such as the Balkans,
Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, North Africa and
the Middle East. Part IV deals with military and non-military
assets. It integrates capability development, burden sharing,
common funding, ballistic missile defenses and the phased adaptive
approach, non-strategic nuclear weapons, and a broad-based
comprehensive approach to security. Part V covers multifaceted
collaborative relationships between NATO and various governmental,
inter-governmental, and non-governmental bodies. This section
incorporates outreach and engagement with Russia, India, Pakistan,
and China, as well as with other non-NATO countries, the
Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), and the Istanbul Cooperation
Initiative (ICI). Formal and informal linkages with the EU, OSCE,
and the UN are also essential features of such a cooperative
activity. Additionally, the expanding participation of civil
society and growing involvement of new key NATO interlocutors
(e.g., NGOs, academics) have created new international partnering
opportunities as a means of bolstering global security through
innovative public-private partnerships. Part VI includes a Summary
and Conclusions.
The purpose of NATO: From Regional to Global Security Provider is
to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Alliance's new vision
(the new Strategic Concept) and common security impact - associated
tasks to be undertaken within a short and longer term time horizon.
The book serves as a relevant and timely study of the most pressing
issues facing NATO today - including recent lessons gained. It
provides recommendations for consideration and further discussion
(i.e., the "what" and the "how" regarding future policy options for
the North Atlantic Alliance). The intended audience includes
international security policy-makers, government officials, elected
leaders, academics, interested professionals, civil society and
members of the public. Specifically, the book focuses on six topic
areas. Part I, the Introduction, relates to conceptual and
organizational changes, membership expansion and enlargement. Part
II consists of emerging security challenges, including terrorism,
piracy, homeland threats, cyber defense and information warfare,
energy security, non-proliferation and countering WMD. Part III
incorporates national and regional challenges such as the Balkans,
Iraq, Afghanistan/Pakistan, the Horn of Africa, North Africa and
the Middle East. Part IV deals with military and non-military
assets. It integrates capability development, burden sharing,
common funding, ballistic missile defenses and the phased adaptive
approach, non-strategic nuclear weapons, and a broad-based
comprehensive approach to security. Part V covers multifaceted
collaborative relationships between NATO and various governmental,
inter-governmental, and non-governmental bodies. This section
incorporates outreach and engagement with Russia, India, Pakistan,
and China, as well as with other non-NATO countries, the
Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), and the Istanbul Cooperation
Initiative (ICI). Formal and informal linkages with the EU, OSCE,
and the UN are also essential features of such a cooperative
activity. Additionally, the expanding participation of civil
society and growing involvement of new key NATO interlocutors
(e.g., NGOs, academics) have created new international partnering
opportunities as a means of bolstering global security through
innovative public-private partnerships. Part VI includes a Summary
and Conclusions.
Featuring international contributors from both industry and
academia, Numerical Methods for Finance explores new and relevant
numerical methods for the solution of practical problems in
finance. It is one of the few books entirely devoted to numerical
methods as applied to the financial field. Presenting
state-of-the-art methods in this area, the book first discusses the
coherent risk measures theory and how it applies to practical risk
management. It then proposes a new method for pricing
high-dimensional American options, followed by a description of the
negative inter-risk diversification effects between credit and
market risk. After evaluating counterparty risk for interest rate
payoffs, the text considers strategies and issues concerning
defined contribution pension plans and participating life insurance
contracts. It also develops a computationally efficient swaption
pricing technology, extracts the underlying asset price
distribution implied by option prices, and proposes a hybrid GARCH
model as well as a new affine point process framework. In addition,
the book examines performance-dependent options, variance
reduction, Value at Risk (VaR), the differential evolution
optimizer, and put-call-futures parity arbitrage opportunities.
Sponsored by DEPFA Bank, IDA Ireland, and Pioneer Investments, this
concise and well-illustrated book equips practitioners with the
necessary information to make important financial decisions.
Since the 1980's, urbanization in China has accelerated, but, more
recently, it has also changed fundamentally in a structural sense
as China is now 47% urban and has 89 cities of one million people,
including the world cities of Beijing and Shanghai. The rapid
urbanization has now spread to the cities of the hinterland,
including third order cities like Anyang in Henan Province, which
is the focus of this project. The Anyang Eastern New Town Plan is
the first instance of a Chinese city funding an American academic
planning unit to create a plan for a new district. The Plan was
prepared by the Urban Studio of the School of Planning, University
of Cincinnati, USA. The Final Conceptual Plan presented in this
document explores urban development through a major departure from
the contemporary Chinese model. Sustainable development is the main
theme of the conceptual plan, and maintaining environmental and
cultural resources, saving energy, encouraging the use of green
technology, constructing green buildings are apparent throughout
and can be seen not only in the design of the city, but in the
residential neighborhood designs at block and building levels.
Featuring international contributors from both industry and
academia, Numerical Methods for Finance explores new and relevant
numerical methods for the solution of practical problems in
finance. It is one of the few books entirely devoted to numerical
methods as applied to the financial field. Presenting
state-of-the-art methods in this area, the book first discusses the
coherent risk measures theory and how it applies to practical risk
management. It then proposes a new method for pricing
high-dimensional American options, followed by a description of the
negative inter-risk diversification effects between credit and
market risk. After evaluating counterparty risk for interest rate
payoffs, the text considers strategies and issues concerning
defined contribution pension plans and participating life insurance
contracts. It also develops a computationally efficient swaption
pricing technology, extracts the underlying asset price
distribution implied by option prices, and proposes a hybrid GARCH
model as well as a new affine point process framework. In addition,
the book examines performance-dependent options, variance
reduction, Value at Risk (VaR), the differential evolution
optimizer, and put-call-futures parity arbitrage opportunities.
Sponsored by DEPFA Bank, IDA Ireland, and Pioneer Investments, this
concise and well-illustrated book equips practitioners with the
necessary information to make important financial decisions.
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